Bishop Ciro Fanelli

Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Oct 1964		Born
15 Sep 1990	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lucera-Troia, Italy
4 Aug 2017	52.8	Appointed	Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy
18 Oct 2017	53.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy
4 Nov 2017	53.0	Installed	Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy

MicroData Summary
Ciro Fanelli
Bishop Ciro Fanelli
(born 2 Oct 1964)
Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa

Ad Limina - April 2024 (Italy, Basilicata): Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lucera, Diocese of Lucera
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Lucera, Diocese of Lucera-Troia

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Raffaele Castielli †
Bishop of Lucera-Troia
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Giuseppe Giuliano
Bishop of Lucera-Troia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Salvatore Ligorio
Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo
Bishop Domenico Cornacchia
Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Giuseppe Giuliano (2016)
Bishop of Lucera-Troia
Archbishop Beniamino Depalma, C.M. (1991)
Bishop Emeritus of Nola
Michele Cardinal Giordano † (1972)
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Archbishop Giacomo Palombella † (1946)
Archbishop of Matera
Archbishop Marcello Mimmi † (1930)
Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa)
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano † (1907)
Archbishop of Bologna
Vincenzo Cardinal Vannutelli † (1880)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q34772847

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 4 Aug 2017
ob/i: CB, 14 Aug 2017
c2+: CB, 24 Sep 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Number 19,597

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